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Bowl EP

Full-Length Play, Dark Comedy  /  1w, 1m, 1gnc (adult)

Written and directed by Nazareth Hassan
Music by Nazareth Hassan and Free Fool

Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter need to find a name for their rap group. Through flirty interludes, cringy overshares and practicing their ollies, they grow increasingly closer. Skating and Smoking. Skating and Drinking. Skating and exorcizing a demon.

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 1m, 1gnc (adult)
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Experimental
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades

  • Finalist: 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
    Winner! 2026 Obie Award for Outstanding New Play
    Nominee: Three 2026 Lucille Lortel Awards
    Nominee: Three 2026 Dorian Awards, including Outstanding Off-Broadway Play

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Summary

Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter need to find a name for their rap group. Through flirty interludes, cringy overshares and practicing their ollies, they grow increasingly closer. Skating and Smoking. Skating and Drinking. Skating and exorcizing a demon. With live skating and original music, enter Bowl EP: a skateboard park, in the middle of a wasteland, at the edge of the galaxy.

History

Bowl EP premiered off-Broadway at Vineyard Theatre on 1 May 2025. Directed by Nazareth Hassan, the production featured Felicia Curry, Oghenero Gbaje and Essence Lotus with understudy Kalonjee Gallimore.

Keywords
Performing Groups

kelly k klarkson – 20-24, blk, she/they, trans, taurus. kelly is rough around the edges, mysterious and boisterously feminine. she dresses like a tomboy: skin showing but baggy, a lil dirty but shiny still. 
quentavius da quitter – 20-24, blk, he/his/him, scorpio. quentavius contains soft, unrefined darkness, gilded with a sheen of silliness. he dresses carefully, practically, and stylishly.
lemon pepper wings – a ghetto oreo femme demon clown, she/he/they, prolly a sag idk. lemon pepper wings is like THE most enthusiastic black anime cosplay girl you’ve ever met. times 10.

  • Time Period Present Day
  • Setting

    A bowl on the edge of an urban wasteland in the middle of the galaxy.

  • Features Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes
  • Additional Features Play with Music
  • Duration 90 minutes
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol
    • Drugs
    • Intense Adult Themes
    • Strong Language
    • Smoking
    • Violence

Media

Critic’s Pick! “A messy, poignant and memorable new work.” – The New York Times

“Extraordinarily imaginative, quietly beautiful and suddenly devastating... A play whose aftereffects I suspect will linger in my brain for years. It is living proof that even the smallest stages can contain infinite worlds.” – TheaterMania

“Disruptive and breathtaking. Bowl EP simply has to be experienced.” – Gay City News

“Raises the strident, repetitive street rhythms and language of rap into an art form.” – TheaterScene

Critic’s Pick! “A messy, poignant and memorable new work... This exuberant premiere... plays with a concentraated immediacy... With an off-kilter, episodic structure, it feels distinctively of the Tik Tok age.” – The New York Times

Videos

  • Bowl EP – PIX 11 New York Featurette youtube thumbnail

    Bowl EP – PIX 11 New York Featurette

  • Bowl EP – Nazareth Hassan Obie Awards Acceptance Speech youtube thumbnail

    Bowl EP – Nazareth Hassan Obie Awards Acceptance Speech

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